Helen: (Apologies for any typos - trying to use a Spanish keyboard - tried to use a German one the other day which is even worse cos it´s Qwertz instead of Qwerty - I never realised how much English uses Ys until then)
Anyway, C is feeling smug as all the museums we´ve tried to go to so far, bar one, have been closed. We did go to the Modern Art Gallery though...but the Tate Modern it wasn´t. Trying to get an opinion about art out of C is neigh on impossible. If he likes something, then great, you might get 5 mins worth of conversation...but if he doesn´t like something, he just says ´I don´t like it - I don´t have to have a reason for not liking it, only a reason for liking it´ and that´s that. Anyway, it was interesting to ponder if the art in the gallery (all south american) was ´bad´ art or if we just didn´t like it because we´d been brought up with different, European styles. We came to the conclusion that it was actually just BAD art - mostly it looked like people copying (not very well) European styles.
We also went to the castle - high up on a hill, with great views, the biggest Columbian flag you´ve ever seen and a great many windy, small, deep, dank and very very dark tunnels to explore. I´m sure none of you will be surprised to hear that C ran off and left me whimpering in the pitch black a couple of times, only jumping out to make scary noises. It was pretty eerie to be in the tunnels on our own...but then a hoarde of school children descended on us - at first we were, of course, indignant about the noise they made (we are British after all)...but then I started thinking that that must be what it would have been like if you were in the tunnel trying to escape from enemy troops following you shouting and screaming. Pretty scary. It´s also interesting how the mind can exaggerate things and adds two and two to make 5 - from the noise of the school group I thought there were hundreds of them - then only about 10 of them came down the tunnel!
Other than that we´ve been on the boat quite a bit...which was a good thing as we dragged our anchor the other day. The skipper and his wife had gone for sundowners on another yacht and we were just getting ready to join them...when 3 dinghies turned up to tell us we were drifting fast! C had to hang up on his parents (sorry!) and try to stop us sailing to Panama by ourselves.
Think that´s all our news - oh, except for yesterday´s adventure - we went on an all inclusive day trip to some private islands for snorkelling and beaches (you can´t go there with your own yacht) - ít was certainly quite an experience being herded around with all the other day trippers - just a small taste of what it must be like on a cruise liner. We all agreed that one day not having to worry about where we´re going/what to have for lunch was actually quite relaxing...but any more would be living hell...
Right, off to post our postcards now (buying stamps (the biggest stamps you´ve ever seen, an inch by an inch and half at least) was quite traumatic - it took about 10 mins, involving a written receipt and at least 3 members of staff - and it cost about 13 quid for 10 stamps!!)
Lots of love Hxx
PS I´m feeling v virtuous as I´m reading a book in German - nearly half way through, and I´m actually enjoying it!
PPS More photos on Flickr...
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